Construction and arrangement of sitting and bed rooms in mansions of all kinds, especially hotels, sanitariums, and the like.



No. 894,068. PAITENTED JULY 21, 1908.

B. SOHERL.

CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF SITTING AND BED ROOMS IN MANSIONS OF ALL KINDS, ESPECIALLY HOTELS,

SANITARIUMS, AND THE LIKE. APPLIOATION FILED 001231, 1907.

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' B. SOHERL.

I CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF SITTING AND BED ROOMS IN MANSIONS OF ALL KINDS, ESPECIALLY HOTELS,

SANITABIUMS, AND THE LIKE.

'APPLIGATION FILED OCT. 31, 1907.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 2 No 894,068. PATENTED JULY 21, 1908.

V B. SOHERL, CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT 0F SITTING AND BED ROOMS IN MANSIONS OF. ALL KINDS, ESPECIALLY HOTELS,

SANITARIUMS, AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 31 1907.

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7 f g 3 f 3 i a 4 z I a 1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BRUNO SCHERL. OF ERFURT, GERMANY.

CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF SITTING AND BED ROOMS IN MANSIONS OF ALL KINDS, ESPECIALLY HOTELS, SANITARIUMS, AND THE LIICE;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 21, 1908.

Application filed number 31, 1907. Serial N6. 400,015.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Bmrxo SOHERL, merchant, a subject of the King ofPrussia, German Emperor, residing at Erfurt, Kingdom of Prussia; German Empire, have invented certain new and useful improvements in the construction and arrangement of sitting and bed I cially hotels, sanitariums, and the like, of which the following is a specification.

struction" as wellas the arrangement of sitting and bed rooms in hotels, 'sanitariums and the like, which, while utilizing the available space to the greatest advantage, allows great convenience to the occupants, gives the advantages of a sitting and bedroom with a single room, facilitates attendance and prevents the guests meeting with the servants. The arrangement is such that for each bed room there are two entrances entirely sepa-' rated from one another, one of which leads "to a corridor-which is only arranged for servants, while the other' communicates with a balcony or veranda arranged between the rows of windows outside the building which is only intended for the use of guests. By this arrangement the guests are not molested by the servants and the guests do not I hinder the servants in working. As soon as a guest leaves the room passing on to the balcony or veranda an automatic" signal 'arranged beside or above the scorridor door,

is operated which indicates to the servants that the respective room is unoccupied and can be set in order. pFurt-her, in order to keep the servants away from, the rooms as- Inuchas possible, the beds are arranged on rollers-so that they can be moved in the lon'-,

' gitudinal direction into the servants corridor through an aperture, in the wall so that when in the pushed-in position, that is to say in the room, the head-endcloses the aperture and during the day the bed is pushed out-.

side into the corridor, thefoot-e'nd closing the a erture in the wall. This arrangement I enab es the beds immediately after the rising of the guests to be pushed out of the room so that the room can be put in order in the shortest time ready for the reception of guests, while outside of the room the beds can be attended to and made, without makin the room dustv.

n-order to make the servant-corridor as rooms in mansions of all kinds, espe necting each room to the corridor.

narrow as possible, the beds can also in the pushed-out position partly project into the room andthis part in the room can be covered by means of a casing having the appearance of'a' table or cupboard. In a similar manner, to the beds, the dining-tables and cars for trunks and luggage are arranged movable through apertures in the wall into the servant corridor. The annexed drawing illustrates as an example forms of construc- The present invention relates to the con-' tionand arrangement of the invention.

Figure lis a front elevation of a hotel ha ing the rooms arranged and provided with the improvementsabove described. Fig. 2

.is a plan showing the arrangement of the rooms. Fig. 3 isa vertical section. Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate a modification of the arrangement of the beds. Fig. 6 shows the trunk car and Figs. 7 and 8 the movable. diningtable.

Between the rooms 1 and! a corridor-3 is arranged in a known manner, but which is'not accessible to guests and servants as usual hitherto, but only to the latter. This corridor is in connection with a luggage-elevator 4 which is arranged towards the front of the building, and also with a passenger lift 5 and stairs 6, which stairs-can be used by the guests in .any emergency as a safe means of descent. The uests can get from their rooms to the said stairs through doors con- In the absence of the guest this door serves for the servants to enter the room, for the purpose of setting it in order. As already stated, the absence of the guest is automatically indicated in the corridor for instance electrically by means of an appearing inscription or any other sign, This electric device is operated by the door, through which the guest leaves the room. lThe sign may appear on, above, or beside the corridor-door.- v For the same purpose also-an acoustic or optical signal can e used.

Besides the corridor 3 between the rows of windows, on the outer-wall of the building or on the interior of the mansion, are arranged balconies or glass covered verandas 8 arrangedl'for the guests, to which the. lifts 9 lead or the princi al-stairs, connecting the main entrance of t e hotel with all'the floors. From these verandas'steps 10 leadto each 'room'l and 2 the passa e of which is closed at the-lower or upper en by means of a door.

In the firstcase the stepsare. not 7 'the beds fully closes the wall aperture.

from the veranda and are closed towards the j ranged in the wall.

room by a decorative railing and gate. the latter case the steps are visible from the glass-veranda as the door is at the upper end of the steps and the latter therefore cannot be seen from the room.

The furniture of the rooms consists essentially of tables 11, dining-table 12, beds 13, luggage car 14 and bath and water-close arrangement 15. In the smaller rooms 22 one bed and the bath-arrangement omitted. The beds 13 are mounted, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, on rollers and are movable in the ion-- gitudinal direction. At the two long sides of the beds and arranged as low as possible longitudinal or grooves are arranged, on which, or in which run on each side two small rollers, wh ch correspond with the said rails or grooves arranged in. the wall-aperture through which the bed passes, so that the beds when being pushed in or pulled out are guided straight and do not strike the walls. By means of this arrangement the beds can be drawn in and out of the room 1 in such a manner, that the foot or the head-end 16 (Id it the space which the beds require in the corridor 3 is to be restricted as much as possible,

they are in the pushed out position partly inclosed in a cupboard or table-like casing 17 arranged in the room (Figs. 4 and 5). In order to enable the beds to be attended to in the corridor without troubling the guest, linen cupboards a" are arranged above the beds which however can also e arranged to stand opposite to the rooms in the middle of the corridor.

The luggage cars 14 serve to bring the luggage, raised by the elevator 4.- into the relative room 1 or 2. In order to keep the lug gage out of sight of the guest, the cars 14 are moved in corresponding casings 18, which are in connection with the room by spring closing doors 19. If the guest wants the luggage, the servant pushes the luggage car into the room by means of a handle 20, whereby the doors 19 automatically open, automatically closing in drawing the luggage car 14 out again. Of course the luggage car 14 can also be drawn in and pushed out by the guest himself after having opened the doors 19.

In order not to bring the servants into contact with the guest in the rooms 1 or 2 when serving food and bevera es ordered, the dining-tables 12 are movabl arranged in the wall 21, Fig. 3, in such a manner that they can be pushed out into the corridor 3 through an aperture in wall 23 closable by means of a flap 24 where they remain until the guests want to be served, which can be an nounced for instance by means of a signal. Only then are the tables 12 laid and with the food to be served pushed into the room. 2

Figs. 7 and 8 show an example of construction of the table 12" which is movably arseaoes .The table slides by In means of rollers 25 in a U-shaped uide 26 provided in. the wall 21, the. tab e being guided in position and prevented from striking the wall by rollers 27 and iron. guide 28. The arrangement is such. that the tablescan be moved by endless rope 29 running on pulleys which worked from the outside by the servants, by means of crank-gearing Claims 1. A building of the class described having a plurality of guest chambers, a corridor sep-'" arated -from said chambers and adapted for the use of servants, and a veranda separate from the said corridor and (EOHlHiIlIllOfltlHg with and depressed below the floors of the guest chambers.

2. A building of the character described comprising a plurality of guest chambers, a servant corridor divided of? from said chamhere, a veranda depressed below the floors of the guestchambers and having flights of stairs communicating with the guest chambers, and an elevator separated from the cor rider and communicating with the veranda.

3. A building of the class described comprising a plurality of guest chambers and a servant corridor on each floor, a veranda extending about the exterior wall of the building and communicatin with the guest chain bers on the respective loors, said veranda being depressed below the windows of the guest chambers with which it communicates and an elevator separated from the servant corridors on each floor and communicating with the respective verandas.

4. A building of the class described comprising rows of guest chambers arranged on opposite sides or the building, a servants corridor extending longitudinally between the rows of guest chambers, a veranda communieating with the several guest chambers and separated from the servants corridor, and

entrance and exit means for the servants corridor separate from the veranda.

5. A building of the class described comprising a guest chamber, a partition forming one wall thereof and dividing said chamber from a servants corridor, said partition being provided with an opening, a pair of horizon tal guide ways extending through the open-' ing in said partition, each having a pair of upper and lower tracks thereon, a table mounted to move horizontally through the opening in said partition so as to occupy a position either within the guest chamber or a position in the servants corridor, and a pair of rollers mounted on each longitudinal edge of said table and arranged to cooperate respectively with the upper and lower tracks of said guide ways.

6. A building of the class described comprising a guest chamber, a partition forming one wall thereof and dividing said chamber from a servants corridor, said partition being provided with an opening, "a pair of guide ways extending horizontall through said opening in the partition, eac guide way being'of substantiall U-form and providin upper and lower gulde ways, a table mounte to operate horizontally through said -opening 1 so as to occupy a position either within the guest chamber or a position within the serv ants corridor, a air of rollers mounted in each longitudina edge of said table and arranged to cooperate res ectively with the u per and lower tracks 0 the respective guide way, and supplemental rollers also mounted I on' the table and cooperating with the guide 15 ble.

way to prevent edgewise movement of the ta- 7 A building of the class described comprisin a guest chamber, a artitionclosing. one si e thereof and separating said chamber from a servantscorridor, said partition being 1 provided with an opening, a casing arrange 1n alinementwith the opening in the partition and'projecting into the servants corridor, the top wall of the casing-being provided with a pair of longitudinal slots, apair of swinging doors arranged to close theopening in the partition, and a baggage car guldedto operate through said opening soas tooccupy a position either within the guest chamber or a position within said casing, a handle being provided on said car and having portions adaptedto extend through the slots in the casing to a part above the latter whereby the car may be manipulated by a servant within the servant s corridor.

8. A building of the class described com-' 'servants corridor and adapted to inclose the baggage car when occupying a position therein the end of the partition being open to ermit loading of the car, and means at-' tac ed to the car and operative from the exterior of said casing for ermitting the car to be moved into and out 0 said guest chamber.

' In testimony whereof I have hereunto set .my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

"BRUNO SCHERL." 'Witnesses: 1 1

PAUL To nMANN, Fnrrz PETERHEIM. 

